hello You Beautiful People today we're taking a look at the Microsoft Surface Pro 9. I
still think this is one of the nicest looking two-in-ones you can buy on the market fun fact
when Microsoft created this two-in-one product they actually gave the engineering schematics
to other PC vendors that's why you see a lot of copycats on the market it's not because they're
copying Microsoft well technically they are but they were given those engineering schematics so
that they can create versions of their own and it's done very well for Microsoft because now we
have a lot of beautiful two-in-ones to choose from now look this is a beautiful product but it's not
much of an upgrade over the Surface Pro 8 which is why I want to start this video with Best Buy's
top deals because some of these deals are going to make a lot of sense by the end of the video
so thank you Best Buy for sponsoring this portion now the Microsoft Surface Pro 8 with 60 gigabytes
of RAM i7 256 gigabytes of storage is retailing for twelve hundred dollars this is four hundred
dollars off if you don't want the pro there's also the surface laptop for the ryzen 5 16 gigabytes
of RAM retailing for nine hundred dollars this usually is so sold for 1200 bucks probably the
craziest deal of all if you're into gaming is the Asus Rog strix g15 Advantage Edition this
is a ryzen 9 5980 HX 16 gigabytes of RAM and RX 6800m GPU usually retails for 1700 but right now
you get it for 600 off at 1100. also the Asus Zenbook 15 which I showed in a previous video
is still on sale for 6.99 and that netsu an MX 450 dedicated GPU links to all of these products
will be in the description down below so this cobalt blue is a very classy color it's vibrant
it pops it's contrasty I think a lot of people are going to like this the design and dimensions are
fairly similar to the previous one if I place the Surface Pro 8 on top of it it feels the same right
like there's not a lot of difference in terms of weight maybe grams difference but you're not going
to feel the difference when you have both in your hand it looks like they flipped the motherboard
though because the ports are now on the opposite sides so on the new version instead of having to
type c ports on the right hand side it's now on the left hand side the benefit bit of the pro 9 is
you get two Thunderbolt 4 ports which you didn't get on the previous version it was just regular
USB type c and of course you have your surface connect Port there's one thing you should notice
is that the audio jack is no longer available on the surface lineup they completely gotten rid of
it so if you want to connect headphones to this you either got to use wireless headphones or use
some sort of dongle there are some minor changes to the vents it looks like they're a bit wider
on the Surface Pro 8 it could just be the color and my eyes but it looks like the gap between
the front of the display and this back portion over here is wider than the Surface Pro 9 which
is kind of weird because this thing needs as much air as possible so this is such a thin form factor
another tweak is the hard drive if you want to get access to your nvme SSD you had to use a PIN
to pop this cover in order to replace it with the new version you don't need that you just push this
little circle you get this satisfying boinky noise and then you can take off the cover and
access your SSD as you can see here they also flipped exactly where that SSD goes there's no
change in the hinge it feels nice and sturdy and it goes back just as far as the previous model
now there is a little variation between the Intel model and the r model they both come with 1080p
cameras but only the r model has Windows Studio Effects Windows Studio Effects gives you cool
utility like being able to Auto frame you follow you around when you're on a zoom call you don't
get that with the Intel version the reason being is because the Intel version doesn't have an mpu
which is very specific to the arm processor that's inside of the other version of this so
you're just going to get the regular 1080p webcam which looks good but you're not going to get any
of those Auto frame features now because this is a Surface product if you want the full experience
you have to spend another 280 dollars to pick up the surface keyboard it does come with the slim
pen 2 which is a very awesome writing tool I love using this pen for notes it's one of my favorite
pens to write with on the market like it better than the apple pencil for notes not drawing and
this is 120 hertz display so the only thing I can suggest to you is if you want the best pen
experience make sure that 120 hertz is on because it's the smoothest when you when I took this out
of the box it was 60 hertz and I could tell right away that there was a bit of latency when I was
drawing on the screen but if you put on 120 it just makes writing notes even better the keyboard
has a nice tactile feel on the keys obviously it's a very shallow travel distance because it has to
be embedded into this actual cover the touchpad is very accurate and easy to use but it's a tiny
touch pad so you don't have a lot of space to move your fingers around the display is absolutely
gorgeous it's the same pixel sense display you got on the previous Surface Pro 8. it's bright it has
good color accuracy it has good color gamut it's a much better display than the one that's on the
surface laptop 5. also another Hardware change is the placement of the power button and volume
rocker it's now on the top of the surface instead of the sides I like this better because let's say
you know you take your surface out of the back you open up the hinge and you know right away that if
you place your finger like this you're going to select the power button and you know right away
that if you place your finger here you're going to touch the volume controls this is very similar
to an iPad but performance is where things start to get a little bit interesting you would think
with an i7 12th gen CPU and faster ddr5 memory and a slightly faster mvme SSD you would get you
know a nice boost in performance compared to the previous model but the fact of the matter
is I'm not seeing any difference at all sure and synthetic benchmarks this new Surface Pro 9 just
completely destroys the Surface Pro 8 but when you start actually using it for specific applications
the Surface Pro 8 sometimes actually beats this out in fact when I was compiling Mozilla Firefox
on this it performed it slower on the new Surface Pro 9 compared to last year's model video editing
was a little bit better on the previous model compared to this one too now this is where things
also get interesting and that's heat management Microsoft is super conservative with this device
this thing gets a little bit warm a bit too quick and if you're really pushing this thing it's going
to get hot in fact I couldn't even run Ada 64 on this to test stability because the application
would just lock up and shut down the same thing happened on my Surface laptop 5 review this is
not meant for hardcore tasks it's really for the office user the dude who's sitting in there typing
Excel notes all day wants to use the pen to take notes and that's about it like don't buy this to
edit video don't buy this to handle large amounts of Photoshop files it's strictly a productivity
device one thing that I was shocked to see though was battery life battery life on the previous
version was better than this like don't get me wrong battery life on both are good like I got
over 10 hours of use before needing to charge but I got over 12 hours with the Surface Pro 8. so if
that's something you Value First the Surface Pro 8 becomes the better deal look I love this thing
I really do but it's hard for me to recommend the Surface Pro 9 over the Surface Pro 8 while there's
still lot of Supply out there you're getting better battery life you're saving four hundred
dollars for the exact same skew and you still get a headphone jack you're not really getting
any benefit with the Surface Pro 9 except for Thunderbolt 4 if that's something you actually
need so while supplies last if you're looking at the pro I would personally go for the Pro 8 while
you can if time flies down the road and there's no more Pro 8 left and you're coming from an older
product obviously go for this but it's hard to not recommend 400 off for a very similar experience
and look I get it you know Microsoft wants to deliver a specific type of experience they want
to make sure fan noise is low they can't really push this thing too hard because of how thin this
chassis is so they have to really be conservative with those thermals and until Intel or AMD gets
more efficient processors more performance per watt this is what we have to kind of deal with
in a chassis like this open answered all of your questions if you want to check this out or the
Surface Pro 8 there'll be links in the description down below along with all the deals from Best Buy
like that if you liked it subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you guys in the next one